An official website of the United States government
Here's how you know
Official websites use .mil
A
.mil
website belongs to an official U.S. Department of Defense organization in the United States.
Secure .mil websites use HTTPS
A
lock (
lock
)
or
https://
means you’ve safely connected to the .mil website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
Skip to main content (Press Enter).
Toggle navigation
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
The Department of the Navy's Corporate Laboratory
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Search this site ...:
Search
Search
Search this site ...:
Search
Home
About Us
Leadership
Commanding Officer
Director of Research
Executive Officer
Organizational Structure
Inspector General
EEO/Diversity Office
Avenues of Redress
EEO Complaint Process
Reasonable Accommodation
Environmental Policy
History
NRL Centennial
NRL 100 Years of Contributions
Our Work
Areas of Research
Facilities
Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research
Institute for Nanoscience
Field Sites
Chesapeake Bay Detachment (CBD)
Marine Meteorology - Monterey California
NRL-South
Scientific Squadron VXS-1
News & Media
News
Images
Videos
Publications
Doing Business
Technology Transfer
Educational Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
Work for Non-Federal Entities Agreements
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)
Commercial Licenses
Government Purpose License (GPLs)
Available Technologies
Small Business
Contracts
Other Resources
Careers
Opportunities
Post Docs
Students
Direct Hire for PSS
HBCU/MI Post-Doctoral Research Program
HBCU/MI Research Internship Program
NDSEG Fellowship Program
NREIP Internship Program
Pathways Internship Program
SEAP Apprentice Program
SMART Scholarship Program
SSEP Student Employee Program
Volunteers
Workforce Recruitment Program
Faculty
Benefits
STEM
CanSat
CyberWeek
LEctenna Challenge
Contact Us
Media Queries & Public Affairs
Employment Verification
Visitor Information
EEO
FOIA
Ruth H. Hooker Library
prev
NRL Intern Discovers a New Pulsar Buried in a Mountain of Data
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Remote Sensing Division intern, Amaris McCarver, along with a team of astronomers, discovered the first millisecond pulsar in the stellar cluster Glimpse-CO1 and recently published findings in the Astrophysical Journal
... More
Winners of the 2024 Student CanSat Competition Announced
Hosted by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), American Astronautical Society (AAS) and NASA, the 2024 student CanSat competition concludes with Team PWr Aerospace, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland, the victor
... More
NRL CCOR Launches on the GOES-U NOAA Satellite to Monitor Space Weather
Launched June 25, 2024, the Compact CORonagraph (CCOR) instrument is a small space telescope that will create an artificial eclipse of the sun allowing observation of the sun’s atmosphere, also called the solar corona. The instrument will be used by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to detect Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
... More
NRL researchers receive Navy’s Top Scientists and Engineers Award
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists and engineers received the prestigious Department of Navy Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award, June 12, during an awards ceremony hosted at the Pentagon.
... More
NRL Researchers Release “Putting AI in the Critical Loop” Book
The book, Putting AI in the Critical Loop: Assured Trust and Autonomy in Human-Machine Teams, is written by eminent researchers from across the world with an emphasis on technology, devices, systems, and know-how to acquire and move warfighting information while denying these capabilities to the adversary
... More
next
NRL NEWS
NRL Intern Discovers a New Pulsar Buried in a Mountain of Data
By Mary Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| July 1, 2024
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Remote Sensing Division intern, Amaris McCarver, along with a team of astronomers, discovered the first millisecond pulsar in the stellar cluster Glimpse-CO1 and recently published findings in the Astrophysical Journal.
MORE
Winners of the 2024 Student CanSat Competition Announced
By Daniel Parry, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
| July 1, 2024
Hosted by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), American Astronautical Society (AAS) and NASA, the 2024 student CanSat competition concludes with Team PWr Aerospace, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland, the victor.
MORE
NRL CCOR Launches on the GOES-U NOAA Satellite To Monitor Space Weather
By Emily Winget, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| June 26, 2024
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) was launched June 25, on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) from NASA – Kennedy Space Center to detect and characterize coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
MORE
NRL Researchers Receive Navy’s Top Scientists and Engineers Award
By Emily Winget, Corporate Communications U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
| June 14, 2024
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists and engineers received the prestigious Department of Navy Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award, June 12, during an awards ceremony hosted at the Pentagon.
MORE
NRL Researchers Release “Putting AI in the Critical Loop” Book
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| May 30, 2024
The book, Putting AI in the Critical Loop: Assured Trust and Autonomy in Human-Machine Teams, is written by eminent researchers from across the world with an emphasis on technology, devices, systems, and know-how to acquire and move warfighting information while denying these capabilities to the adversary.
MORE
Forging Partnerships: NRL Hosts First Innovation Day for Industry
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| May 17, 2024
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) hosted its first Innovation Day for Industry, May 16, to inform industry and assess interest in a focused set of emerging technologies that are potentially ready for collaboration with industry partners, and advance system-level technologies at NRL-DC headquarters.
MORE
NRL Selected to Lead Critical Science Mission on Wildfires and Smoke
By Mary Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| May 9, 2024
NLR meteorologist, David A. Peterson, Ph.D., has been selected by NASA to lead the PYRocumulonimbus (pyroCb) EXperiment (PYREX) -- a large airborne-based field campaign aimed at studying the role that pyroCb activity plays in the warming climate system and understanding its physical links to extreme wildfire behavior.
MORE
NRL Releases 25 Technologies for the Next 25 Years, Ensuring Future Maritime Dominance
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| April 12, 2024
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) releases 25 Technologies for the Next 25 Years publication featuring a collection of science and engineering concepts under development to meet critical national security needs over the next quarter century.
MORE
NRL Recognizes Researchers During Centennial Innovation Awards Ceremony For Major Impacts On National Security
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| April 9, 2024
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) recognized Centennial Innovation awardees during a ceremony on Apr. 8 held at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., for major impacts on national security.
MORE
NRL Charters Navy’s Quantum Inertial Navigation Path To Reduce Drift
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| April 5, 2024
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have developed a patent-pending Continuous 3D-Cooled Atom Beam Interferometer derived from a patented cold and continuous beam of atoms to explore atom-interferometry-based inertial measurement systems as a path to reduce drift in Naval navigation systems.
MORE
NEWS ARCHIVE >>
25 Technologies for the Next 25 Years
On to NRL's Second Century of
Discovery and Innovation
NRL 100th Anniversary
Please click on above patch
to learn more about NRL's Heritage.
NRL Social Media
Facebook
YouTube